Mount Rushmore hides a secret room few people know about. Behind Abraham Lincoln’s carved face sits an unfinished chamber cut ...

"I wanted to rush right down to the museum and touch it, hear it, smell it, rejoice in it and thank all who have turned a dream into reality." ...

Billionaire hedge funder Kenneth Griffin was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation ...

A handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution signed by Abraham Lincoln has sold at auction for a record $13.7 million. It’s the highest price ever paid for a document signed by ...

As America approaches 2025, Abraham Lincoln's prescient words about internal destruction of democracy resonate amid growing ...

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

Michael Peregrine: Chicago helped give rise to Abraham Lincoln’s presidency 165 years ago Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email ...

THE SOLITUDE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN; Typical Reminiscences Illustrating a Life Whose Deepest Moments Were Lived Alone.

A 1912 Geneva city document suggests that Abraham Lincoln had visited the town and spoken outside a former courthouse. Geneva History Museum Executive Director Terry Emma said the document was ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...